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1945
Truman announces inquiry into Jewish settlement in Palestine
On this day in 1945, President Harry Truman announces the
establishment of a panel of inquiry to look into the settlement
of Jews in Palestine.
In the last weeks of World War II, the Allies liberated one death
camp after another in which the German Nazi regime had held and
slaughtered millions of Jews. Surviving Jews in the formerly
Nazi-occupied territories were left without family, homes, jobs
or savings.
In August 1945, Truman received the Harrison report, which
detailed the plight of Jews in post-war Germany, and it became
clear to him that something had to be done to speed up the
process of finding Jewish refugees a safe place to live.
In late August, Truman contacted British Prime Minister Clement
Attlee to propose that Jewish refugees be allowed to immigrate to
Palestine, which at the time was occupied by Britain. Attlee
responded that he would look into the matter and asked for a
joint Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry to examine the
complicated issue of integrating Jewish settlers into territory
that was home to an Arab majority. Meanwhile, two U.S. senators
introduced a resolution in Congress demanding the establishment
of a Jewish state in Palestine.
In April 1946, the committee issued its report, which recommended
the immigration of 100,000 Jewish refugees to Palestine. Truman
wrote to Attlee for his help in moving the repatriation process
forward. However, by mid-1946, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff had
weighed in, bringing up the question of who would control the
lucrative oil fields in a region that had the potential for
unstable political and cultural relations between Jews and Arabs.
Since the threat of communist expansion into politically unstable
regions then dictated most of U.S. foreign policy, Truman and
Attlee became convinced by their respective military advisors
that Jewish communist sympathizers in a new Jewish state might
jeopardize the west's access to Middle Eastern oil. The
settlement plans were put on hold.
Truman was again inundated with requests for help from the Jewish
community. The issue of the establishment of a Jewish state was
debated and delayed for another two years even though the newly
formed United Nations, which had no enforcement power without the
participation of the United States and Great Britain, had decided
in favor of a Jewish state by 1946.
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